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wmarone	2010-10-12 , 02:58
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Originally Posted by gerbick

I said absolutely nothing about user experience.

I said "wide open doesn't sell well" - it just hasn't on handhelds yet. I find the user experience on open systems - while sometimes maddening - better in a lot of instances albeit varied in some cases unnecessarily.

Which is why I said being open was irrelevant, but not mutually exclusive with the end user experience. It is not a selling point to the vast majority of users.

The way you reiterate this point makes it sound like being wide open is bad.

The UX on the WP7 is honestly looking to be quite good. That and a tie-in into the ever popular XBOX Live platform. That might sell a lot of units alone.

Certainly. However if you are Microsoft then open is your enemy. I'm not too worried about MS in the market, however, as the competition is fierce. I only shudder at the thought of our only choices being locked down Android devices, iOS devices, and WP7 devices.

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